Re: CSS vs. tables

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, 'sNiek wrote:

(about netiquette)

> Is it necessary to quote the entire article

Almost never, I'd say...

> when I give an answer to the entire article?

Give the attribution, and quote just a few significant lines which set
the context for your reply, as a courtesy to everyone else who's
following the thread. Exceptionally and rarely, if the whole article
really seems relevant, one may summarise it briefly in one's own words
(e.g in brackets [....] ) instead of quoting the whole original
article. The important thing is that a reader should be encountering
some original material from you before they've seen, at worst, two or
three dozen lines of quoted material - in most cases much less.

> I just wanted to post a quick reply...

If you become a regular usenaut, as I'm sure we all hope that you
will, you'll get to recognise the regular respondents, and see their
posting style. This group is basically no different in its
conventions than any of the other "big-8" usenet groups, so no-one's
asking for heroic measures - just "regular" netiquette.

Hope this helps.
.

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